Two things jump out from this story,
First, Bush Sr is coherent enough and feeling well enough to think that his long time friend, James Baker, was there to ACTUALLY take him someplace.
and/OR
second,
If he was actually senile and that bad condition to be near death, why in the world was not GEorge W there instead of saying "GOOD BYES' over the phone.
Who says goodbyes over the phone when you are filthy rich and have private planes?
The Times reported that Bush’s health had been fading in the past several days, and his former secretary of state and longtime friend James A. Baker III arrived at his Houston home to check on him.
Bush grew alert and reportedly asked Baker, "Where are we going, Bake?" and Baker replied "We're going to heaven," the Times reported.
"That's where I want to go," Bush said, according to the Times. He died barely 13 hours later, surrounded by friends and members of his family, the newspaper reported.
In the last words before his death, President George H.W. Bush told his son, former President George W. Bush, "I love you."
The 41st president, who died late Friday, was on speakerphone with his son to say goodbye Friday night before his death. The last words were first reported by the New York Times.
George W. Bush told his father that he had been a "wonderful dad" and that he loved him, and George H.W. Bush replied "I love you, too."
George H.W. Bush, 94, had a disease similar to Parkinson's.